The ‘”regional” area for higher ed does include OWU, Denison and others. And outside of Boston metro, you’d be hard pushed to find a higher total population of college/university students in the nation. It’s a serious strength that needs to be promoted and leveraged. CBS got that right.

It’s not the same metric, but the data (esp. the student concentration data) will allow some comparisons for how Columbus stacks up. In the AIER report we are further down from second, but it does give an idea of how much a strength higher education potentially lends to Columbus. OSU arguably bolsters the stats, but the OWU’s, Denison’s and Capital’s of the area make it diversified and dense.